The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, the most prestigious mountain film festival in the world, will return for its nineteenth year to Morgantown on Thursday, April 9, at 7 p.m. at the Metropolitan Theater. The Banff program, including the intermission, is approximately three hours.
This year’s selection of six films from four countries showcases over 2 hours of magnificent cinematography telling powerful stories that reflect a wide range of mountain experiences and portraits from mountain sports, culture, and mountain environment to adventure.
Selected from over 400 entries, this year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring and thought-provoking action, environmental, and adventure mountain films with stops in 600 locations in 40 countries in all seven continents.
Some highlights of the films that will be previewed:
- A Baffin Vacation, Love on Ice (Canada, 2025, 26’); follow a couple as they kiteski north along the remote coastline of Baffin. Over their 69-day holiday, they ski mountains, climb an epic big wall, and cross a glacier in search of new rivers to whitewater kayak.
- Best Day Ever *2025 Best Film: Mountain Sports and 2025 Audience Choice Award (USA, 2025, 47’) follows adaptive mountain bikers, a story of grit, independence, and what’s possible when community and creativity come together.
- The Hive Architect (UK, 2025, 12’); Matt Sommerville is a committed conservationist, having spent the last 14 years building and installing approximately 800 bee log homes for the dwindling insect populations around the English countryside.
Tickets are Adults $25 in advance or $28 at the door; Students $21 in advance and $24 door. They can be found on the festival website, Pathfinder of WV at 235 High Street (next to the County Court House) in Morgantown, and at the door after 6 p.m.
